Archive for September 21st, 2009
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09.21.09
X-Rays this morning
Went to hospital this morning for IUP. Tell you, not being able to eat anything since midnight is a killer! Then to top it off, to not be able to drink coffee? That is freaking mean of the medical community. Could only drink water after midnight, and I tell you that drinking water when I first get up in the morning? That does not cut it to get me fully aware and ready to meet the day.
Anyways, a rain storm went through Winterset and snapped off the electricity at the hospital. So the electric sliding doors were not sliding as it takes them time to reset themselves. But a kind man on the inside did open them with great strength. And the electricity snapping off for just a minor amount of time meant the radiology department had to reset and check all the machines. Oh, we drove through rain from here to there.
First they had to draw some blood from me to make sure I was okay to be able to have the dye solution pumped into the blood system. That took about 20 minutes for them to check my blood and okay me. Then they gave me two gowns (one for front, one for back) and after I put them on, laid out on the x-ray table. Totally uncomfortable position, plus looking up at bright lights did not help. So one of the techs there (all cute women by the way) took three stabs at putting in the needle into a vein in my right arm. Needle a thick one no less and it did sting a bit each time. She gave up and another nurse then took my left arm and she did good getting the needle into me the first stab. Then the dye solution went into me quite fast and after about 5-10 minutes they took like 6 x-rays of my urinary system (kidneys, bladder, etc) over about 20 minutes. Then I got to get dressed and leave.
Will find out later this week from the urologist what he and others found on the x-rays. Give him (and me) a better idea of what is wrong with left kidney (actually just a very small portion at bottom where tubes are that go into bladder is shown to be non-functioning last month) and the tubes leading into my bladder. And what options are then open to fix what is wrong.
Now, are you not just tickled to death to read about my medical problems here?
Yesterday was my wife’s birthday! No, not saying her age. I want to live a bit longer thank you very much….
Tomorrow morning we go to Des Moines. Visit Aunt Louis, then to my wife’s birthday lunch with our cousins. Maybe drop off at Aldi’s on the way home.
Wife called my dad yesterday and talked to him for some time. He is doing good. Going back for another doctor appointment to check out his problems. Hey, he said he has a hard time reading the calendar (he is like my wife, has birthdays-anniversaries-etc written down on his calendar), can’t hear much and still has his dizzy spells, but by god he is okay to drive!
Over the weekend I started another blog! Yes, I just found the domain name and liked it, so I registered it and threw up a blog on it. It is called the Cheap Pig Blog and will be where I showcase my first huge digital products package of 55 downloades at a low price plus other digital products I find to sell very cheap, cheap enough for everyone to pig out. Do visit the blog and check out what is there now.
And then since I got the script super cheap, I opened up another site today. Yes, I should not have but I did. It is a nice little proxy list site where the proxies are listed in order of how fast they are. If you are a proxy owner, do stop by Fast Proxies and add your proxy or proxies free.